Snowshoeing

Climbed up Mt. Monbetsu with my friend today. It's a smallish mountain (865 m/2840 ft). The prominence is probably about 500 meters (1640 ft), on about a 5 km (3 mile) road. Weather wasn't great - cloudy the whole way with light snow at the top. But it was still fun. Just a few photos due to the weather conditions not cooperating.

It just keeps falling...

Woke up this morning to a lot more snow. Not sure the official totals, but it appeared to be more than a foot on top of my car. Which means that we're getting near 3 feet accumulated on the ground. Honestly, I haven't seen this much snow in at least a decade. There was one winter in university that probably came close to this, but I'm not sure if it really quite measures up to this. Perhaps I might have to go all the way back to my Minneapolis days - which is approximately 20 years. Maybe I've seen this much snow since, but nothing comes to mind quickly. At any rate, I ended up walking to work today with my camera in hand, photographing some of the scenes for all of you who are missing your snow. Enjoy. (Click on the images to view larger versions.)

Here's what I woke up to. I knew that quite a bit had fallen the previous evening, but I wasn't sure how much was going to fall overnight. It was a lot.

As this was a slightly wet snow, the trees were beautiful first thing in the morning.

This is in Nakajima Park, right across from my apartment.

The snow ended early enough for the plows to get out and get all the major and quasi-major streets plowed before most people were out and about.

Notice the woman on top of the snow mountain. We're running out of places to pile up the snow, which I suppose is a good argument for having at least a small yard.

Chuo Park was also pretty.

Chuo Park is right behind my workplace. One of the campus buildings is visible on the left in this photo.

Just dang pretty.

Hopefully this means that boarding should be good this weekend.